Frontline Fellowship USA

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
208155389
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2023
Forms available
Form 990 2023
Location
Manitou Springs, CO, USA
Phone
7196852899
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Women's Rights
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,957
Expenses
$38,706
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • JOHN EIDSMOE (DIRECTOR)
  • WILLIAM EINWECHTER (DIRECTOR)
  • DAVID NOEBEL (TREASURER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Frontline fellowship USA exists to glorify god by working for the fulfillment of the great commission. We seek to serve suffering christians, to speak up for the persecuted, exposing the persecutors, concentrating on neglected areas, evangelizing in restricted access areas, working for biblical reformation and praying for spiritual revival throughout africa. In doing so, we partner with our sister mission, frontline fellowship south africa, to distribute literature, support and relief through various aspects of our ministry including our african book publisher, christian liberty books.

What it reported doing in 2023

Frontline mission field teams do multiple complex mission outreaches to zimbabwe, zambia, and malawi. This involves pioneering ministry into neglected and remote regions. Going literally off the map, the team crosses rivers by ferries and pontooons and visits and maps numerous villages, many of whom said that this was the first time they had ever seen any white people. The team conducts thorough creation evangelism in these villages, providing solid foundation teaching on creation, the fall, the law and the need for a saviour. We receive invitations for us to return and conduct leadership training courses and evangelistic outreaches in many more parts of africa than we have the resources to respond to. Invitations for ministry have come from the congo, nigeria, ghana, liberia, kenya, malwai, zambia, zimbabwe, uganda, and sudan. With the very limited means at our disposal we are attempting to do our very best to respond to these challanges and opportunites and to fulfill these needs in africa. We have major outreaches and leadership training programs planned throughout southern and central africa in the coming year. We are also wanting to acquire a suitable motorized boat for the congo river mission and establish a forward base on the congo river. The situation in many of these areas is desperate. Aside from those who attend frontline seminars and conferences, hundreds of postings are made under our library program to prison inmates and to pastors in zambia, nigeria, zimbabwe, tanzania, uganda, ethiopia, and cameroon. Participants receive certificates for completing all the book reports from library program 1 and library program 2. We receive very positive feedback from pastors throughout africa and continual requests for more books. Since 2010, we received, processed and distributed approximately 57 tons of bibles, books and gospel literature. Much of this has been delivered and distributed across the borders into zimbabwe, zambia, and malawi. Mission stations, schools and churches throughout south africa have also benefited from the containers of great christian resources which have been donated to us.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 48
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 11
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 69.2%; rating input score 69
  • Fundraising efficiency: $36.33 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -680.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -8.7% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 69.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $27K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 15 of 16 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2023
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.